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Steve Jobs to Appear at 'D: All Things Digital' Conference in Early June?

So basically he won't be getting the tough questions. Mossberg won't dare cross that line. Wuss.
 
Wow, I would love to see this, we would get so many answers to things that Steve would never talk about normally :)
 
troop231 said:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/33423.rss Scroll down and you will find this:

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It really depends on timezone ;)

From your link :
 

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Peace said:
It really depends on timezone ;)
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Yeah, that's been acknowledged many times, and Gruber is East Coast. Of course everything depends on the timezone, as it's always a different time around the world. Gruber would post at a time like that just to give himself a better shot at being right. Seems like he always rides the fence like that.

Trying to remember here--don't the WWDC invites usually go out in the evening? It seems like I remember that "double bridge graphic" one being like that. Was that two years ago now?
 
BRLawyer said:
Actually it was way LESS interesting than anticipated because Mr. Mossberg was a lukewarm interviewer AT BEST...well, not even that; he was absolutely insipid, weak and boring in his questions. A total WASTE of a golden opportunity to have a really good and interesting chat with SJ and Gates on the history of both companies, their successes AND blunders.
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I never thought that this day would come, but I have to say that I completely agree. Having said that, I never read anything from Mossberg that was a departure from his lukewarm and tedious approach to everything in life. I never understood the trick - an old man reviewing new tech? Is that it?

Anyway, I send him this - one of the newbies posted something that gives us hope in the new generations:
 

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ghostface147 said:
So basically he won't be getting the tough questions. Mossberg won't dare cross that line. Wuss.
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In other words, Mossberg is not a real journalist...it's more like a butt-licking luxury blogger. Last time's interview with SJ and BG was an underwhelming waste of time...not to mention the ridiculous participation of Kara "Who?" Swisher. :rolleyes:
 
Btw, if you haven't seen the Bill and Steve interview it was really good.

I always encourage even my non tech fans to try to see it.
 
BRLawyer said:
What better time to ask about what happened to the Apple ///? SJ's connections with Woz? Their comments on Pirates of the Silicon Valley? And on and on...instead, Mr. Mossberg asked totally predictable questions that were as exciting as Prince Charles's outfits.
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I’m not a fan of Mossberg, but your questions are equally as boring (who cares about the Apple III, Jobs and Woz’s friendship or what he thought of a 90’s TV movie?). The questions they asked weren’t bad. All Things D isn’t People Magazine or a Barbara Walter’s interview.

In fact, there were some revealing questions. For example, Gates gave Jobs credit for resurrecting Apple and said he admired his taste and product sense, and Jobs finally admitted Microsoft’s business model for software was the winning strategy (he sort of denied this for years) and praised Gates for his charity work.

Their discussion of “Post-PC” devices was fascinating.

To Mossberg’s credit, he called Jobs out for Apple’s crappy .Mac service. It’ll be interesting to see if they question Jobs about Apple’s “less than stellar” products like Apple TV and MobileMe this year.

Here’s a transcript for those interested:

http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070531/d5-gates-jobs-transcript/
 
jaw04005 said:
I’m not a fan of Mossberg, but your questions are equally as boring (who cares about the Apple III, Jobs and Woz’s friendship or what he thought of a 90’s TV movie?). The questions they asked weren’t bad. All Things D isn’t People Magazine or a Barbara Walter’s interview.
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+1 While it'd be nice to hear these answers one day, I'd rather not waste time in the conference on irrelevant questions.
I don't expect Mossberg to ask any seriously hard hitting questions, unless he wants to risk his access to Apple products.
 
I was hearing either May 31-June 4 or June 7-11 for WWDC, and since the former would be cutting it pretty close (and overlapping with All Things Digital), I'm betting on the latter dates.

10.7 isn't ready for a developer preview at WWDC. I'm expecting them to announce its big cat name and some of the low-level OS changes, but no seed or demonstration of new user-facing features until 2011, followed by at least half a year before release, because there are some major new APIs that devs will have to prepare their apps for.
 
eastercat said:
+1 While it'd be nice to hear these answers one day, I'd rather not waste time in the conference on irrelevant questions.
I don't expect Mossberg to ask any seriously hard hitting questions, unless he wants to risk his access to Apple products.
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The questions I've mentioned ARE relevant simply because they've never really been asked before to SJ in a direct way...

As for your comment above on "access to Apple products", this is yet more evidence of Mr. Mossberg's failure as a true journalist...I would never stand there just in order to ask politically-correct questions that every Joe out there already takes for granted.

Finally, what is so "revealing" about hearing Jobs "praising" BG and vice-versa? This was just a wonderful mise-en-scène that meant nothing from the standpoint of the interviewer...he could AND should've seized that opportunity to provide longtime Apple fans with a LOT more interesting information on the inner aspects of SJ and Apple's history.

Disappointing, to say the least.
 
BRLawyer said:
As for your comment above on "access to Apple products", this is yet more evidence of Mr. Mossberg's failure as a true journalist...I would never stand there just in order to ask politically-correct questions that every Joe out there already takes for granted.
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It’s easy to say that from the outside, but how many people actually get to interview Steve Jobs in a year? Very few.

You don’t get that opportunity by pandering to the Apple fanboy community with questions like “What did you really think of the Pirates of Silicon Valley?”

Get real. Jobs is not Wozniak.

BRLawyer said:
he could AND should've seized that opportunity to provide longtime Apple fans with a LOT more interesting information on the inner aspects of SJ and Apple's history.

Disappointing, to say the least.
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Inner aspects of Steve Jobs? This man is about as private of a person as you can get. Maybe someday he’ll write an autobiography, but for now he has a role to play as Apple’s CEO.

You sound like you want a Kitty Kelley tell-all.
 
jaw04005 said:
It’s easy to say that from the outside, but how many people actually get to interview Steve Jobs in a year? Very few.

You don’t get that opportunity by pandering to the Apple fanboy community with questions like “What did you really think of the Pirates of Silicon Valley?”

Get real. Jobs is not Wozniak.

Inner aspects of Steve Jobs? This man is about as private of a person as you can get. Maybe someday he’ll write an autobiography, but for now he has a role to play as Apple’s CEO.

You sound like you want a Kitty Kelley tell-all.
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And who the hell expects him to be like Wozniak? Did I mention anything about his private life or questions about his then-rejected daughter? Of course not, so don't be glib.

Funny thing is: you agree with my argument that this was a unique opportunity to ask really interesting questions, not ordinary Joe inquiries that everyone knows about. And what did Mr. Boring Mossberg do? Nothing more than the strictly ordinary.

Why did I mention the Apple ///? Because it would be WAY more interesting to have his views as to why that machine was a total blunder due to his own design wishes. My point is that Mossberg could've profited from his privileged possibility to get at least a little peek into SJ's acceptance of certain past failures, without ever losing the good mood that prevailed during that debate.

What about the Cube? Will there be a new Cube in the future? No questions were asked there. No questions about the era of the clones. No questions about employee #0. No questions about Ron Wayne. No questions about the $666.66 Apple I. And on and on and on.

Again, I reiterate my point; last time's ATD was a waste of time when compared to the rare possibilities arising from access to SJ and BG for a frank discussion.

Perhaps you don't care because you're a probably a younger Apple user; millions of other longtime Apple fans would surely enjoy a more open dialogue.
 
Hey, this is just a couple of days away. With all the speculation about what Jobs might or might not announce at WWDC, this has sort of been ignored. We want rumors! We want speculation! We want to know what Jobs is going to talk about ahead of time, even if it turns out to be completely wrong!

I suppose it's unlikely that he'll give details of upcoming or newly introduced products (iPhone), that would hijack somebody else's venue. But he could talk in a general way about future plans for iDevices and Apple's (relatively) new move to design their own chips. Or the squabbles between NVidia and Intel, or prospects for AMD.

Or will it all just be a retrospective, with little provocative info?
 
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